Some notes on installing the excellent combat flight simulation “Falcon BMS” on Linux Mint 22.x (currently “xena”, release 3)

Create a new prefix for wine:

mkdir $HOME/falcon_bms_prefix # (for example)

winetricks:

winetricks --self-update
winetricks dotnet40
winetricks dotnet48
winetricks corefonts
winetricks d3dx11_43
winetricks vcrun2022
winetricks dxvk
winetricks d3dcompiler_47

o set virtual desktop

o set emulation to win10

opentrack 2026.1

install from source (word salad machine), optionally with prefix

install files live in

$HOME/src/opentrack/build install

run with

bin/opentrack

wine plugin setup:

Tracking reset / pause on buttons

falcon BMS control server / client

falcon bms control server working version 0.8 runs under WINE without issues

StreamDeck ICP (in progress)

Basic ICP version ready using simple key presses and xdotool where necessary.

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